No. You can take off as soon as the home point has been marked.Is it the same for Mini 2?
Thanx! Great answer, great forum.No. You can take off as soon as the home point has been marked.
See this guide for more details on when to calibrate the compass:
DJI Mavic Compass Calibration Guide
Both of those would have been myths.
Manual states if you move more than 50 miles you should do a compass calibration. Magnetic North is not true North and can make a difference.Both of those would have been myths.
Moving any distance makes no difference to compass calibration and there's no need for GPS to "idle" for any time ever.
Manual states if you move more than 50 miles you should do a compass calibration. Magnetic North is not true North and can make a difference.
Make that 50km, 31 miles, or 30 days not flying.
That may be true also, but that wouldn't explain why if you go more than 31 miles, calibrate. If that was the only reason, moving 50 feet could make a difference.Compass calibration is used to cancel out any magnetism picked-up by the aircraft. By rotating the aircraft as instructed it allows the compass to detect magnetic differences that are not part of the earth’s magnetic fields.
That may be true also, but that wouldn't explain why if you go more than 31 miles, calibrate. If that was the only reason, moving 50 feet could make a difference.
It doesn't explain it because it's not a thing at all.That may be true also, but that wouldn't explain why if you go more than 31 miles, calibrate. If that was the only reason, moving 50 feet could make a difference.
That's just another example of DJI's poor wording in their error message.a compass calibration is normally asked for if there is metal close to the drone that is affecting the compass ,such as rebar in concrete
well all i can say is my MPP must be different from what you are flying ,i have a old coal bunker in my garden which is made of concrete with rebar in it if i place my MPP on top of it then after the drone has linked to the RC i will get a compass interference calibrate compass message on the screen,and as i said in my post, if i then move it off the bunker and place it on the ground,then the message after i have deleted it stays off ,i agree with you that there is no need to calibrate the compassThat's just another example of DJI's poor wording in their error message.
A compass calibration really isn't asked for if you place the drone on or close to steel objects.
The warning mine shows says:Move aircraft or calibrate compass.
>99% of the time the correct action would be to move the drone away from the thing that the compass is warning you about.
@omm, can you take off while on the bunker with the error and cancel the error message and be good to go?well all i can say is my MPP must be different from what you are flying ,i have a old coal bunker in my garden which is made of concrete with rebar in it if i place my MPP on top of it then after the drone has linked to the RC i will get a compass interference calibrate compass message on the screen,and as i said in my post, if i then move it off the bunker and place it on the ground,then the message after i have deleted it stays off ,i agree with you that there is no need to calibrate the compass
My Mavic Air asked me to calibrate almost every time I went to fly, my M2Z does not.I suspect it’s more DJI playing safe. The app knows via the aircraft’s GPS when it has moved a specified distance.
My M2P was wanting to calibrate EVERY time I was about to fly regardless of whether I was back at the same location just a couple of miles away or 50-miles away. No change to the aircraft and never near a source of magnetism. Then out of the blue the calibration messages stopped - immediately after the last firmware update.
There's no point asking why would DJI put something in the manual.If compass calibration isn't needed after the first, why would DJI go through the expense of putting in the extra info in manuals and aircraft?
well for a start i would not take off with the message showing,thats asking for trouble i know that theres Rebar in the bunker and was just using it as an example, never get air born with error messages displayed@omm, can you take off while on the bunker with the error and cancel the error message and be good to go?
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